Sentence examples for was finished off by from inspiring English sources

The destruction by Israeli incursion and bombardment was finished off by Palestinian scavenging.

What survived the wreckage was finished off by Tamerlane the Great (himself a Muslim) in 1401.

Apart from anything else, Jacques told me, it was finished off by the leaden weight of its associations with communism.

The goal, created by the quick, short passing of Lukas Podolski and Mesut Özil, was finished off by Miroslav Klose.

Just as it had been for the first – except the first was finished off by David Villa.

The Broncos came storming back and fine break by Dorn was finished off by Mark McLinden, Sykes' conversion restoring their two-point advantage.

"Men were arrested at 10 in the morning and were dead by 11; entire families were eliminated and whole wards purged; rows of prisoners were shot by firing squad, still breathing until they were finished off by coup de grâce".

Neither army nor church could conquer them: they were finished off by European diseases.

According to al-Masudi, those who escaped were finished off by the Burtas and Volga Bulgars.

Four minutes after the restart, a Townsend counter-attack was finished off in style by Macleod who dived to glance the ball in.

Its destruction – which was finished off properly by bulldozers a few months later – heralded Germany's reunification and came to symbolise a pivotal moment in the Cold War finally thawing out.